From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: gene@genek_hates_spammers.com   
   Subject: Re: Those Amazing Computers!   
      
   "ToolPackinMama"  wrote   
   > You were pretty much proven wrong in a couple of significant ways.   
   >   
   > You are the only one who apparently doesn't get that.   
   >   
   > Your claim that it is a "plot hole" has been debunked.   
   >   
   > If Gene is determined to remain firm, it's because he is correct.  Why   
   should    
   > he budge a smidgen if he is correct?   
      
   Because it turned out we were arguing different positions.  Ron's was that   
   Spock    
   entered a lousy database inquiry into the computer, and I don't disagree with    
   that.   
      
   Mine was that the computer was sufficiently well-programmed to somehow return    
   the information he needed anyway.   
      
   GeneK    
      
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